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NSIAD-92-237R 1 (1992-06-01)

handle is hein.gao/gaobackbo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: United States GAO\() General Accounting Office Washington, D.C. 20548 National Security and International Affairs Division B-248861 June 1, 1992 146766 The Honorable Patricia Schroeder Chairwoman, Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Dear Madam Chairwoman: At your request, we have been examining the Army's past and present use of force rotations to determine the feasibility of expanding this approach in the future as a means of reducing permanently stationed forces overseas. As part of this review, we analyzed past Department of Defense (DOD) and Army evaluations of force rotation programs to identify the major factors cited as contributing to the cancellation of past programs and as limiting the potential for expanded use of rotations. On May 18, 1992, we briefed your staff on the status of our work to date. As requested at that meeting, this letter provides our preliminary observations on the factors DOD and the Army cited in the studies. RESULTS IN BRIEF The key drawbacks of past force rotation programs that the various DOD and Army studies pointed to were the (1) relatively higher cost of the rotations versus permanent stationing of troops, (2) reduced combat readiness created by the rotations, (3) increase in personal and family problems created when soldiers were rotated without their families, and (4) inadequate force structure in the United States to support overseas rotations. Our on-going review indicates that -- past cost comparisons have not covered all relevant cost factors and considered a full range of rotation options, -- some decline in readiness routinely occurs whenever units prepare for rotation--both going to a new location and returning from it--regardless of whether such GAO/NSIAD-92-237R Army Force Rotations 0545_414

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